郁单瀅  danying

Danying Yu (b. 1997, Shanghai) works in London 

Danying is an artist-researcher whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography. Her practice examines how individuals navigate and adapt to space within transitional living conditions, particularly in contexts of informal housing, creating works that highlight local knowledge, resourcefulness, and the resilience inherent in vernacular spatial practices.

Grounded in both studio-based practice and socially engaged approaches, her recent projects investigate everyday practices of “make-do” that emerge when space is shaped by necessity, adaptation, and constrained conditions.  These inquiries inform an evolving body of work through which she is developing a situated and translocal sculptural language. Through collaborations with local communities and the use of found and modest materials, she explores spatial agency, improvised architectures, and the aesthetics of lived experience. She holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art.

EDUCATION 
2019-2021
MA, Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London

2015-2019 
BA, Public Art, East China Normal University, Shanghai
                       

EXHIBITION
2025
It works (somehow), Flat 103, Huangbian Village, Guangzhou, China
Oscillation, Small Gallery, London, UK

2024

Curiosity, Care, and Participation, Times 101, Huangbian Village, Guangzhou, China

Welcome to the UK, Ugly Duck, London, UK

2023
Art On Loop, The Lovers and Leaders Space, Berlin, Germany

2022
New Youth,  The 4th Academic Experimental Art Documentary Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
Railing Codex, Pararailing, Current Plans, Hong Kong

2021
Good Stuff - Exchange of Waste, fRUITYSPACE, Beijing, China
Strange Fairy Tales, Wenda Gallery,  Yunnan, China
PROXY, 4 Cromwell Place, London, UK
The Symbiotic Planet, Salone del Mobile, Palazzo Litta, Milan, Italy

2020
TANK ART Festival,  Tank Shanghai,  Shanghai
Art Plus (A+) Shanghai International Fair, World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, Shanghai, China
a_fish_you_have_already_caught, BAKIIBAK, Hastings, UK
On The White Wall: 20 Litre Interior and Exterior Wall Paint, M P Birla Millenium Gallery, London, UK

2019
Future Lab, West Bund, Shanghai, China
Work in Progress show , Royal College of Art, Kensington, London, UK
15th Anniversary, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
Boutique, Depot Space 寄存处, Shanghai, China

2018 
Sequential,  ECNU (East China Normal University),  Shanghai,  China
STUD - ENT - IO,  NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti),  Milan

2017 
The Festival of Insignificance,  ECNU (East China Normal University),  Shanghai,  China

RESIDENCY

CONTACT
Inquires: danying.pot@gmail.com